YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked: Before the new year, YouTube gave this big blow to users! Increased the price of this plan
YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked: That will mean the hardest hit to anyone who is an YouTube TV subscriber, so you’ll need to reach into the pocket. In fact, the company announced that it is not making the streaming service free, that will just cost your monthly bill. YouTube announced on Thursday that it is raising the cost of its base streaming service plan to $ 10 (roughly Rs 850). YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked
This is attributed to the higher cost of content and other investments that the company wants to make. From there on out, costs will rise for the company’s plans. The company’s plan will cost $ 82.99 (approx Rs 7042) price from next month i.e. January. The same will apply to current subscribers too, along with customers signing up new. But that will not apply to those subscribers watching YouTube TV via a promotional package.
What the company said in its statement ( YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked)
Aware of the impacts to its customers, the company claimed in making this choice it considered the decision long and hard. It is notable that company has hiked the price for this plan multiple number of times in the last few years. It was introduced in 2017 at a price of $ 35 (Rs 2,970) each month.
However, in 2019, it jumped to US $50 (INR 4,242). The price has since been rising steadily. Google had also increased its price in March last year, then its price had increased to $ 72.99 (Rs 6,194) per month. YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked
Escalating operations cost was to blame
A few years ago, new channels were added with the increase in the price of YouTube subscription plan, but just like last year, nothing like this has been done this time too. This has added to the pressure on the company already facing several disputes pertaining to the licence. Thus, this rise in operational cost is stated to be why the costs have been increased.
It was 2021, and the cost of services from other streaming platforms, too, had gone up.
In the last 50 days or other brands have increased their plan prices and brought a lot of new things like password limit to increase their user base not only youbut also, streaming platforms like Netflix, Apple TV and Disney. YouTube TV Plan Price Hiked